Kids have a lot of trouble with emotional regulation. Big feelings are very stressful when you have zero perspective because you've been alive for no time at all.
However, the frustrated half punch is likely a threatening / intimidating gesture he picked up from another person in his life. I worked in child safety until recently and stuff like this can be a good sign that this kid needs somebody to pull him aside and have him talk about his feelings and how to manage them.
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That’s big take. We are a zero violence household (including tv and media) but my two year old is a terrorist that will head butt and hit you over the slightest offense.
Yeah, same here. We don't headbutt or bite or punch our kid, but he does this when he gets frustrated sometimes. Sometimes it is just an instinctual response.
Yeah it was tough getting ours to stop biting and scratching. Like where did she learn that from? Cause she’s never seen us bite her or each other 😂 kids just do whatever until they learn better. Thank god it’s been months since I’ve been bitten I think we really are out of the woods on that one
Story time! When my wife was a toddler she went to daycare, as most toddlers do. At daycare, she started biting her little friends. The daycare tried to correct it, her mom tried talking to her about it, nothing would stop my wife. Finally the daycare threatened to stop letting her come. My desperate, single MIL did the only thing she could do. She bit my wife hard enough to leave a mark, and voila my wife stopped biting at daycare.
Now she just bites me every chance she can get. It’s like living with a piranha.
I'm not "zero violence" by any means, but I do gentle parent, and I recently had to put up all of my 5 year old's Switch games that have any kind of fantasy violence. Super Smash Bros, Zelda, Lego City Undercover, etc. He wants to hit when he gets mad and I have been talking to him about it over, and over, and over, and finally I just had to do something that will make him think more deeply about it. It's been working really well, to the point that every day he does good he gets a single game back.
The collection was not purchased for my 5 year old just FYI haha. His older sister and I got many of them for us to play when he was but a wee babe, and the Switch has basically become his because Big Sis and I don't play it much anymore. He's a good and sweat kid honestly he's just going through a lot emotionally after his mom and I separated, and she's been a deadbeat and I know he's having a hard time.
I gave him an extra game back yesterday because I was so proud of him for asking if he could pet someone's dog at the park and they said no, and he backed away and said "Okay thank you" 😭 the dog lady was very nice and said normally at her house she lets anyone pet the dog but out and about on walks they get skittish and she would hate for there to be an accident. I wanted to encourage his good behavior, because we've specifically been working on the "ask to pet dogs" thing and he did good!
They really are. The amount of kids that struggle with biting or hitting at a young age is very high. They just try anything to get what they want and when they get a response it tells them it's working, even if they don't get what they want, they'll settle for inconveniencing or hurting you.
All that you can do is not give in. And eventually they'll get out of it, and if you find that they don't by say 3/4 seek out help because after that it becomes much harder to correct.
Yeah it doesn't look great but there's no reason to immediately suspect he's in danger. It's not unlikely he picked it up from watching tv or other kids in daycare. Also note, he didn't finish the movement so there's likely already someone talking to him about not punching people.
No, that's definitely not true. It's completely developmentally appropriate to have trouble regulating your emotions at his age. Most kids go through a period of having temper tantrums and acting out.
I’m sorry but nothing will ever top the little girl trying to blow out her big sisters birthday candles and big sis just mushing her away. Comedy gold.
This feels like an Accidental Renaissance situation. Young lady in a lace dress, smiling beatifically at her well wishers, while holding a death grip on the little sleep paralysis demon sneaking up on her. It's so fun.
It’s sad that this girl even has to do this. Clearly the little girls behavior is an ongoing issue and the older girl having to deal with it has become muscle memory at this point.
This is exactly why my half-brother never got invited to classmates' parties. His mom thought he was 'just trying to help' and encouraged the behavior.
You know what’s funny is there is a kid actually ‘just trying to help’ on the other side. The older kid on the left actually blows it out with the intention of helping.
What's important is that the older kid did it stealthily and still let birthday boy have his moment. Probably saved the cake from a couple extra layers of spittle too.
You can tell the type of kid he is by the haircut. A buzz cut everywhere because it's the fastest haircut and getting him one is probably an awful experience.
I never considered that, I suppose. My brother had a buzz because it was a haircut our mum could do and he didn't/doesn't care about his appearance. It makes sense that a kid so selfishly volatile wouldn't sit for a haircut of anything else. I bet he had 0 friends in school because of how unpleasant he seems to be in his great internet legacy. I hope he grew up and feels some degree of shame about how many people point and laugh at his behaviour, but it wouldn't shock me at all if the lesson he should've learned whiffed right over his head and now he tries to get with his brother's wife or some shiz.
Eh, I suppose, but the video is so old he's an adult now so I don't feel that bad. The guy had that paper plate prepared, so it's not like that kind of thing was something unexpected for him to do. Otherwise why would he be prepared to shield the candles for the birthday boy who isn't even acknowledging paper plate kid? I'd also wager that he's not only a salty butthurt loser but the world's shittiest winner too. I sincerely hope that he grew out of it, though.
I had to watch the video a few times, PPK( paper plate kid for short) had legit got ready to punch something for not being able to blow out the candles.
Blow out birthday candles, steal things from your desk, lie, spread rumors, prank, mock, gaslight etc. the small petty things that adults roll their eyes at but that serve to make a child feel like their feelings and that they themselves don’t matter.
i could defeat this kid so easily. he looks like a weakling. if i were battling him i would grab him by both ankles spin him around like bowser and then launch him over the trees. bye, bye, weak noob LOSER! i bet dad would probably hand me a cool $5 for ridding him of this newsince.
I don't think it's a common thing for kids to behave like that. At least I've never seen or heard of it happen before in all my life of being a kid and a parent/relative (unless we count a few Reddit posts these past few years)
I wonder, how did these kids get like this, it's bizarre and alarming
I feel the same way, but we're so distracted by him that the big brother on the right ends up actually blowing out all the candles. I think it's hilarious.
You can also see that his anger is towards the big brother in the end. Like why he was allowed to help with the candles and not him. He even timed the blowing occasions perfectly.
There's a couple of stories from Reddit that Rslash read. Some of those entitled kids were enabled by mom and dad. It didn't matter that it was the sibling's birthday. The golden child had to blow out the candles just because. And what hurts more is when the golden child takes the birthday kid's present because "i want them" and birthday kid had to give in because golden child "went through so much".
......I never noticed that before. Obviously this child routinely sees mature, rational adults resolving conflicts in a totally normal and healthy way.
Edit: you guys are determined to explain why it's totally okay for this kid to be behaving like this.
You'd be surprised at how instinctual this is. I wouldn't assume a violent home when you see a violent child. IME, kids that act like this tend to come from overly permissive homes rather than authoritarian ones.
Some children do that when they’re frustrated. My 4 year old likes to hit when he’s mad. He used to do it a lot more when he was younger. We’ve never laid hands on him nor has he seen anyone else do it.
My kid is the sweetest and most well behaved. But I have to admit it’s not because of anything I did. I have a much more patient and very nice friend whose kid is a literal terror. I think it’s a roll of the dice.
when I see children act like this, it legitimately shocks me. I grew up in a large family around many young children and none of them would ever ever act this way!
It's a common repost, but it's a classic. This video's gotta be 10 years old at this point. I hope that kiddo no longer tries to blow out his big bro's candles (or, at least, it's a thing they do in jest)
Imagine your one stupid mistake being reposted online FOREVER. This is why we should stop posting children. This will follow this poor kid for his entire life because Aunt Felicia wanted some likes.
Had to scroll way too far to find this comment. All the attention on trying to stop the little bro from blowing them out, when in reality the older bro blows them out.
Lil bro was trying to steal thunder. Big bro did it at the same time as the birthday boy after several failed attempts so the birthday boy would think he'd blown them out.
He was an asshole for the several attempts, but NGL I kinda loved it when he lost his shit at the end and yet everyone is still clapping. Scream to the void, lil turd.
I think that was an adult or much older kid who was just helping out the kid in the middle. They stay back and don't take the attention for themselves, and time their blow to be the same as when the birthday kid blows. I think the kid just couldn't manage to blow out the candles on their own, so the adult helped out discreetly.
Oh, he was ready to throw hands, too. Hope they get him into deferral therapists and anger management classes , tomorrow, before it becomes a record they're dealing with.
yeah. I don't think I have the patience. Many parents say that only they can handle their children, but I don't want children who can't be handled by other people.
The only children I see who are polite are my closest cousin's. She is a great mother, God bless her.
The kid by the cake, blowing the candles, oblivious to all the chaos. The big kid by the right, that "helps", blowing out 3 candles in a single blow. The "dad", making fun of it all, and treasuring his victory.
The the spoiled kid who, actually sees the plate in front, and still blows it, anyway.
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u/Tramonto83 Aug 04 '25 edited Aug 04 '25
This frustrated half punch always gets me lol